The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events 2)

Dear reader,

If you are viewing this book in the hope of finding a simple and cheery tale, I’m afraid you have picked the wrong book altogether. The story may seem cheery at first, when the Baudelaire children spend time in the company of? some interesting reptiles and a giddy uncle, but don’t be fooled. If you know anything at all about the unlucky Baudelaire children, you already know that even pleasant events lead down the same road to misery.

In fact, within the pages you are now viewing, the three siblings endure a car accident, a terrible smell, a deadly serpent, a long knife, a large brass reading lamp, and the re-appearance of a person they’d hoped never to see again.?

I am bound to record these tragic events, but you are free to put this book back on the shelf and seek something lighter.

With all due respect,?

Lemony Snicket

Despite their wretched contents, A Series of Unfortunate Events has sold?60 million?copies worldwide and been made into a Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey, and (to make matters worse), into a Netflix series starring Neil Patrick Harris. You have been warned!

Are you unlucky enough to own all 13 adventures?

1. The Bad Beginning
2. The Reptile Room
3. The Wide Window
4. The Miserable Mill
5. The Austere Academy
6. The Ersatz Elevator
7. The Vile Village
8. The Hostile Hospital
9. The Carnivorous Carnival
10. The Slippery Slope
11. The Grim Grotto
12. The Penultimate Peril
13. The End